Science news articles about 'crop failure'

... and Environment, said: "Due to the importance of international trade cropfailure is an issue that affects everyone on the planet ... a single intervention that is a 'silver bullet' for protecting crops from failure. What we need is an approach that combines ...

Climate data can help predict some cropfailures several months before harvest, according to a new ... , a computer model could predict cropfailures three months in advance for about 20 percent of global ...

... in rainfall patterns causing massive global cropfailures, or melting Arctic permafrost causing ... on them. Geoengineering and its consequences are the price we may have to pay for failure to act on climate change." The report assesses ...

... more than a thousand square kilometers. The droughts could have led to cropfailure and a rise in infectious disease, and both problems would have been exacerbated by the density of the population, Buckley ...